Macbeth

             In Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, Macbeth proves to be somewhat dynamic in his human representation. He starts off with great human characteristics, he is actually a war hero. However, he begins to change immediately when he meets the three witches who tell him their prophecy of his kingly future. This makes Macbeth ambitious, and it leads to his demise. Once he kills Duncan the change rapidly begins to accelerate. By the end of the play, and Macbeth's killing spree, his transformation is complete and all of his human thoughts and feelings are gone. Macbeth changes from being a great individual to the focus of everyone's fear and anger, because he loses his human characteristics of conscience and remorse.
             As the play starts Macbeth is very human. He has feelings and friends, and he is a war hero. On the contrary, as time elapses, he begins to change into a ruthless killer, a "tyrant". Once he meets the witches and learns he will become king he begins to plot and think murderously. When he arrived at a plot to kill Duncan, and told Lady Macbeth, he realized it was the only way. However, in doing this he made a lot of people suspicious. This meant that more people would have to be killed, and this included the king's son who was next in line for the throne. Here we see that Macbeth experiences the first of a number of breakdowns, and he begins to lose his human characteristics. He begins to fall into a murderous rage after killing Duncan. He thought this would clear his name, but it only made things worse. Each person he has killed results in another that needs to be killed. With each kill Macbeth makes, he loses feelings. Macbeth's conscience is soon deteriorated to nothing, and his killings are increasing. After killing his friend Banquo and confronting Banquo's ghost, Macbeth breaks down for the last time. Macbeth's last shred of remorse is nearly gone. In addition, his wife dies and he barely ca...

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